The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-28


killed negro named Joe Ferguson some
weeks ago in the woods near Chick Springs,
in a quarrel over game of cards. camp
bell was the only eyewitness, and the case
against him for aiding and abetting the act
was not pressed.
Near Blackvile Wednesday night John
Cummings coloredl was S OF and instantly
killed by Rivers Carroll twhite). Cummings
lived about three miles in the country, and
was shot at his house. Carroll lives about
three-quarters of mile from town with his
grandfather. Both Carroll and Cummings
were in town and while there had some din
Guilty about fodder. An inquest was held
Thursday, and the jury returned verdict
of justifable homicide.
A commission was issued Wednesday by
the Secretary of State to William l.. Rod
dey and William j. Roddey, of Rock Hill,
who desire to establish themselves into a
private corporation to be known as the
Southern Loan and Improvement Company,
which will have $4,000 capital, divided
into 81, 800 shares. The principal place of
business will be at Rock Hill. The company
will buy, sell and improve real estate, buy
and sell bonds, etc, and make loans of
money.
Camden Journal. II is an outrage upon
the good citizen who pays his taxes, as he
has to pay for the delinquent as well as his
own. 1t should not be tolerated any longer,
and if there is any power under our consti-
tuition permitting sale and good title TO the
| purchaser it should be exercised at once, and
| thus relieve the good citizen from the unj just
burden that now rests upon him of paying
his neighbor's tax as well as his own. At
the coming session the Legislature should
remedy the evil.
Two unknown negroes created quite
sensation in the Liberty section of Pickens
county Monday. They were armed to the
teeth with pistols, razors and knives, and
passed through the yards of several citizens
| and shot at whoever could be seen. WOm-
en- and children were badly frightened
and the community alarmed The citizens
armed themselves and pursued the negroes.
| One of them received slight wound, but
made his escape The other was captured
and is lodged in Jail. Mr.. w. f. Gary re-
ceived wound in the hand while arreSting
the negro. Both negroes were unknown,
| and their desperate acts cannot be ex-
| planned.
Colleton Press: We are informed that
| syndicate of Western gentlemen are con-
| templating purchasing POO acres in close
| proximity to the depot, for the purpose of
| building factories here. 1t is also said that
the principal parties in this scheme are
| MesSrs. Studebaker and Oliver, wagon and
| pillow manufacturers, of South Bend, Ind.
| Both of these gentlemen contemplate erect
| ing factories here, so that they will be able
| to supply their large Southern trade more
| readily In connection with these gentle
men there are several other Western manu-
| facturers who propose building branch fac
tories here We are told that these gentle
men are now in Charleston making the
| necessary arrangements, and will be here
| some time during the latter part of the pres
| ent week
The South Carolina Bar Association will
meet i'll Columbia on Dec Z, and the annual
| address will be delivered by the Hon. Joel
| Prentiss Bishop, of Cambridge, Mass, the
celebrated author of a number of law books.
| The subject of Mr.. Bishops address is:
1.-The Common Law as a System of Reason
| ing; How and Why Essential of Good Gov
| eminent; What its Perils, and How Avert
| edn This address will be delivered in the
hall of the House of Representatives on
| Thursday evening, Dec. s. In addition to
| the reports of committees and the usual
business, essays will be read by Edward Nc
| Grady, Jr., james Aldrich, Knox Living
stone, Charles Z. Spencer and David r.
| Duncan. The President, William III.
| Parker, has prepared a careful address, in
which he win review the noteworthy
features Of legislation for the past year in
the different States and in Congress.
At Greenville Thursday the court was
busy all day in the trial of Jack Griffin for
completely in the Air Line railroad robber-
| les of last fall. Griffin is big burly clean
| shaven, red faced man, thoroughly "horsey"
in appearance and speech. He came here
| from the Piedmont races in the winter of
| 1885, and at the time the robberieS occurred
| he was quartered at the fair grounds with
| Heath's ra ling stables, which were being
wlntered there. The stolen goods were
| found in the fair grounds. For long time
| Griffin was believed to be the ringleadeE in
| the robberies. Much sympathy has been
felt for him, however, and when
| the Jury came into the court
room and gave verdict of mot
| guilty" there was a momentary but vigor
Gus outburst of applause from the crowd
standing before the railing of the bar This
disorder aroused Judge Pressley's indigna-
ton. He ordered the Sheriff to lock the
court room doors and then to bring before
him the parties guilty of disorderly conduct.
| The Sheriff could not identify them, and a
number of the audience were brought before
the Judge and questioned. They every one
denied it except d. G. Moore, who was ex-
cused as being one of the defendants in the
| cases, and, therefore, eXcusable. Afterward
John Mayfield, Robert Fleming and negro
were reported as having joined in the APP
plause. Mr.. Mayfield was fined, and Mr..
Fleming, having denied the charge, is to
have a trial
The following letter from Mr.. Davis, is in
answer to the invitation TO him from the
| citizens OF Columbia, to visit Columbia dur
ing fair week: BEAUvoIR, MISS, Nov. s,
1SS7.-Messrs. J. P. Richardson, Governor
of South Carolina; w. q. Leitner, Secretary
of State; w. E. Stoney, Comptroller Gen
eral A. C. Haskell, A. p Butler, Commits
sioners of Agriculture; VIM. K. Bachman,
Assistant Attorney General John r. Rhett,
Mayor of Columbia, S. c.; NJ. i. Bonham,
Railroad Commissioner; Angus p Brown
and others: Gentlemen-Soon after the
receipt of your very gratifying letter, be-
came so ill as necessarily to postpone this
acknowledgement of it, 1t would
have given me sincere pleasure to
meet you as invited. South Carolina has
always been the object of my affectonate
admiration, for the same reasons which
have made her the object of vengeful ha-
tired to the enemies of the South Your
children. and your children's children, will
have cause to preserve with reverential pride
the record of South Cardinals career, from
the date of her Colonial existence
down to the date of the meeting of
your society. Her sons have left
to poster ity brilliant examples of patri-
otto heroism, and not less valuable are the
lessons taught by her sage of constitutional
government and community indepen-
dence. The teaching of Rutledge, of